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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 127, Issue 25, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.255101
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- PSP mission under NASA [NNN06AA01C]
- STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellowship [ST/N003748/2]
- STFC Consolidated Grant [ST/T00018X/1, ST/S000240/1]
- STFC [ST/T00018X/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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The high temperatures and strong magnetic fields of the solar corona form streams of solar wind that expand through the Solar System, with magnetic pressure dominating both ion and electron pressure. The sub-Alfvenic nature of the flow suggests suppressed magnetic reconnection at the base of the pseudostreamer, as evidenced by unusually low densities in the region.
The high temperatures and strong magnetic fields of the solar corona form streams of solar wind that expand through the Solar System into interstellar space. At 09:33 UT on 28 April 2021 Parker Solar Probe entered the magnetized atmosphere of the Sun 13 million km above the photosphere, crossing below the Alfven critical surface for five hours into plasma in casual contact with the Sun with an Alfven Mach number of 0.79 and magnetic pressure dominating both ion and electron pressure. The spectrum of turbulence below the Alfven critical surface is reported. Magnetic mapping suggests the region was a steady flow emerging on rapidly expanding coronal magnetic field lines lying above a pseudostreamer. The sub-Alfvenic nature of the flow may be due to suppressed magnetic reconnection at the base of the pseudostreamer, as evidenced by unusually low densities in this region and the magnetic mapping.
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